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When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bored #complex #complexes #get #gets

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#ignore #lucky #number #people #town

O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob pipe and a straw hat. She imagined the puppy, having crapped on the rug, looking up at her, going, Cain’t hep it. But no. Had she come from a perfect place? Everything was transmutable. She imagined the puppy grown up, entertaining some friends, speaking to them in a British accent: My family of origin was, um, rather not, shall we say, of the most respectable... Ha ha, wow, the mind was amazing, always cranking out these— ↗

— George Saunders

#humor #puppy #family

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first. ↗

— Howard Carter

#after #afternoon #almost #came #clearing

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#ceremonies #civil #condemned #fine #gay

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#clear #gay #hate #i #make

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#committed #forgives #god #heart #i

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#cannot #champion #leading #peace #supplier

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#inclination #spread #starts #unfortunately #whatever

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#behind #common #common good #concentration #decisions